Features
2024
Inside the TikTok property hustle (1843 magazine, long read)
2023
Inside the wild ‘Man vs Horse’ race that made a small Welsh town legend (FT Weekend magazine, long read)
Meet the men paying to have their jaws broken in the name of ‘manliness’ (British GQ, long read)
The war against laughing gas (The Dial)
Fight for your likes: how YouTube conquered boxing (Observer magazine, cover story)
The rise of perfectionism – and the harm it’s doing us all (Observer magazine)
Can fear be a force for good? (Observer magazine)
2022
The mystery of the Diriyah Starry Night (British GQ, long read)
Welcome to the real farmers of TikTok (FT Weekend magazine)
To catch a criminal: what a forensic artist knows about the mind (FT Weekend magazine)
Why we should all love wasps (Observer magazine)
Queen of the corvids: the scientist fighting to save the world’s brainiest birds (Observer magazine)
‘Relentless calls and constant abuse’: why Britain’s vets are in crisis (Observer magazine, cover story)
2021
A mystery cube, a secret identity, and a puzzle solved after 15 years (Wired, long read)
The loneliness of the long-distance lorry driver (1843 magazine, long read)
In at the deep end: the activists plunging into the wild swimming campaign (Observer magazine)
The world’s first fitness influencer was a Victorian strongman (1843 magazine)
Perfection or perversion? Why Hawaiian pizza is the polarising issue of our times (1843 magazine)
Catch them if you can? Meet the exotic pet detectives (Observer magazine)
The real life Forrest Gump: why did Rob Pope run across the US five times? (Observer magazine)
How the pandemic broke, then remade, all our habits (FT Weekend magazine)
Covid will not squash our deep-seated need to dance (FT Life & Arts)
2015-2019
‘Five friends go out and take ecstasy - one doesn’t go home’ - the rise of super strength ecstasy pills (Guardian Weekend magazine)
Co-living: the end of urban loneliness or cynical corporate dormitories? (The Guardian)
The Inuit don’t shout at their children – so why do we? (The Guardian)
DIY London: partying on the periphery (The Guardian)
“The hippie dream is still alive”: how Ibiza went from techno to boho (The Guardian)
DJ Octo Octa on coming out as transgender: 'everyone was confused, then it was ok' (The Guardian)
Airbnb: from homesharing cool to commercial giant – investigation (The Guardian)
On a high: why Britain is back on ecstasy (Guardian G2, cover story)
Tracing the history of harm reduction - podcast (Resident Advisor)
Inside London’s secret sex party revolution (Huck)
The fate of Fabric reveals the future of UK nightlife (The Guardian)
Travel
2014-2018
Mapping Machu Picchu: on the road with Google street view (The Guardian)
Just add SALT: Norway’s new arctic arts and music festival (The Guardian)
Havana rising: the millennials pushing Cuba forward (The Guardian)
Train wrecked: take the (non) sleeper to Germany’s Melt! festival (The Guardian)
Savamala could be Belgrade’s new creative quarter – but will it last? (The Guardian)
Surfing in Ghana: where beats meet beach breaks (The Guardian)
Arts, beats and fashion: and inside view of Tbilisi’s creative boom (The Guardian)
Nightlife reports - series profiling club scenes in Berlin, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Belgrade, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Glasgow and Paris (The Guardian)